What was moral suasion? How was it implemented? What was the response to it?
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
The ideal answer should:
1. Define moral suasion: During the 1830s the AASS adopted a reform strategy based on moral suasion—also called moral persuasion. This was an appeal to Americans in both the North and the South to support abolition and racial justice on the basis of their Christian consciences.
2. Explain that slaveholding, as the AASS argued, was a sin and a crime that deprived African Americans of the freedom of conscience they needed to save their souls.
3. Describe the Great Postal Campaign and the use of teams of agents by the AASS.
4. Discuss the violent reaction to abolitionist activities and the imposition of the Gag Rule.
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By the end of the 1830s,
A) there were no Indian tribes or communities remaining east of the Mississippi. B) only the Iroquois in New York, a few Cherokees in North Carolina, and scattered small organized Indian communities such as the Seminoles remained living east of the Mississippi. C) the Florida Seminoles had been annihilated and defeated by the U.S. Army in three wars. D) the Sac and Fox tribes had forcibly reacquired their native homelands in the Old Northwest from the U.S. government.
In 1962, Soviet Premier Khrushchev precipitated "the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War" by
A) starting the Berlin Blockade. B) threatening a military takeover of West Berlin unless the United States left Cuba alone. C) sending Soviet forces to help Castro defeat the Bay of Pigs invasion. D) moving guided missiles to and building launching pads in Cuba.
By 1990, membership in churches and synagogues
A) deeply declined from previous decades. B) experienced an increase from the previous four decades. C) remained steady, except for the Roman Catholic Church, which saw deep declines. D) remained steady, except for mainstream Protestant churches, which saw sharp increases.
Arguably, the most important goal of the Roman political system was ________
A) equity B) human rights C) expansion D) stability